Wellington 1953 to NZGD2000 Conversion

The WGN53-NZGD2000 grid enables the conversion of normal-orthometric heights from the Wellington 1953local vertical datum directly to New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000) ellipsoidal heights.

WGN53-NZGD2000 is published on a one arc-minute grid (approximately 1.8 kilometres) extending over the benchmarks that nominally define the extent of the Wellington 1953 vertical datum (174.4° E to 176.4° E, 39.1° S to 41.6° S).

The conversion value is represented by the attribute “delta”, in metres.

This grid is a combination of New Zealand Quasigeoid 2016 NZGeoid2016 and the WGN53-NZVD2016 height conversion grid. Where NZGeoid2016 is the reference surface for the New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 (NZVD2016), while the WGN53-NZVD2016 grid models the difference between the Wellington 1953 vertical datum and NZVD2016 using the LINZ GPS-levelling marks.

More information on converting heights between vertical datums can be found on the LINZ website.